CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 497 
542. Sandwich Sparrow. 
Passerculus sandwichensis (GMEL.) BAIRD. 1858. 
Common about the prairies and open timbered lands. (Lord.) 
Common on the coast in the fall. (Streator.) An abundant summer 
resident west of Coast range; breeds on Vancouver island. (fannin.) 
Tolerably common migrant at Chilliwack. (Brooks.) A few speci- 
mens taken at Chilliwack, B.C., in the spring of 1901; taken at 
Hastings, April, 1889; first seen near Victoria, Vancouver island, 
about April 20th, 1893, by May 4th they were common. (Spread- 
borough.) One seen on April 23rd, 1887, at Victoria; abundant the 
next day; common along the sea coast at Salt Spring island, Nanaimo 
and Comox. (Macoun.) 
A few were seen on Unalaska island, October 5th, 1899, and two 
young secured. (Bishop.) This species occurs during the summer 
along the entire Aleutian chain and on the island of Kadiak, in 
addition to the southeastern shore of the territory. Dall cites it 
from Unalaska where he found it numerous, as he did also to the 
eastward, but he did not find it to the west of that island. (Nelson.) 
This species is one of the earliest arrivals at Unalaska, usually about 
the roth of May. They breed in June in the grass. (Turner.) On 
June 3rd, 1890, in a grassy patch near Lukannin beach, on St. Paul 
island, I several times flushed a sparrow which I identified as this 
species. (Palmer.) Five specimens were taken on Amagnak island, 
near Dutch harbour, Unalaska, in September, 1897. (Grinnell.) 
Anderson took ten specimens at Muller bay, Alaska peninsula, in 
1903. (Chapman.) 
BREEDING Notes.—On June roth, 1893, at Vancouver, B.C., 
found a nest and five eggs of this bird. The nest was built on the 
ground, made of dried grass and lined with hair. The eggs are 
greenish-white, heavily blotched and spotted with light brown and 
lilac; size .74 by .54 inches. (W. Razne.) 
542a. Savanna Sparrow. 
Passerculus sandwichensts savanna (WILS.) RipGw. 1880. 
Common throughout eastern Labrador; breeds at the mouth of 
the Koaksoak river and at Davis inlet. (Packard.) Tolerably com- 
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